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A Newsletter for the Villages of King's Thorn, & – April 2007

Gardening Club DIARY DATES MARCH/APRIL 2007 The March meeting of the Kings Thorn and Little Birch Gardening Club is being 28TH MARCH – Gardening Club held at 7.30pm. on WEDNESDAY, 28TH 29TH MARCH – Easter Bingo MARCH This month will be the AGM 30TH MARCH – Lent Lunch and will include a Gardening Quiz and 30TH/31ST MARCH – Halfway Theatre Concert Bring and Buy Plant Sale. 5TH APRIL – Much Birch Parish Council Meeting ______10TH APRIL – Evergreen Club Trip to Oxford Easter Bingo 11TH APRIL – Whist Drive TH Little Birch Village Hall – THURSDAY, 14 APRIL – Flicks in the Sticks TH 29TH MARCH - Eyes down at 8.00pm 17 APRIL – W.I. Open Meeting TH Proceeds in aid of Village Hall 25 APRIL – Gardening Club TH refurbishment fund. 26 APRIL – Bingo ______ADVANCE NOTICES Lent Lunch 5TH MAY – May Day Celebrations TH On FRIDAY, 30TH MARCH Little Birch 8 MAY – Aconbury Woods – Walk and Talk Church will host the Lent Lunch at Little 12TH MAY- Flicks in the Sticks – Miss Potter Birch Hall from 12.30pm. to 2.00pm. There will be a choice of four soups with course, shops. The University Botanic WEDNESDAY, 11TH APRIL starting at bread rolls and cheese. Donations, as Gardens boasts 3,000 species of plants and 7.30pm. Entrance fee £1.50 to include usual, will go to Sightsavers International. is by Magdalen College. The Cathedral in refreshments Please support this event if you possibly Christchurch College is well worth a look. Proceeds in aid of hall refurbishment can. Walking tours are available and there are fund. ______hop-on-hop-off buses to help get around ______the city. Concert The fare for members is £8 (£10 Non- Flicks In The Sticks The Halfway Community Theatre will be in association with Arts Alive members) and the pick-up times are as presenting their next Concert on FRIDAY This month’s film is THE HISTORY BOYS follows:- TH & SATURDAY, 30TH & 31ST MARCH 15 on SATURDAY, 14 APRIL at Much 8.45 Brandon Coach Station Birch Community Hall, in Much Birch Community Hall 8.55 Tump Lane Bungalows commencing at 7.30pm, doors open from Based on Alan Bennett's play and starring 9.00 The Park, Wormelow the original stage cast, The History Boys 7.00pm. The theme is AT YOUR 9.05 Poor Clares Convent . The content of the is set in a school in the north of REQUEST 9.10 Kings Thorn Bus Shelter programme has been taken from requests in the mid 1980s, where the Headmaster is 9.20 M.B. Church Bus Stop desperately trying to send boys to Oxford made by the audience in a Questionnaire 9.25 Axe & Cleaver Bus Stop and from the performers thems elves and Cambridge. To do this he enlists the 9.35 Peterstow Bus Stop during the concert in November. The help of a supply teacher to coach his 9.40 Merton Hotel Bus Stop brightest pupils for the exam. The boys Programme will include a mix of songs 9.45 Fonteine Court, Ross and poems taken from our past shows plus however are torn by their loyalty to the To book, please ring 01981 540406 by eccentric, poetry-spouting English master several new items. Tickets can be st Sunday, 1 April, so that we can provide Hector (Richard Griffiths). purchased by contacting Mrs. Webb on Golden Pioneer with our numbers. The Doors open at 7.00pm and the film commences 01981 540406 (01981 540502 if Mrs. following trip will be on TUESDAY, 8TH at 7.30pm. Tickets are £3.50 (£2.50 under 16s) Webb is away). A light supper is included MAY to Cheltenham for an early lunch and are available in advance or on the door. For in the price of £8 but please bring your and then a scenic tour, to include a tea further information or to book tickets please own bottle and glasses. Since these call Bryony Connolly on 01981 541274. stop, of part of the Cotswolds with a Blue TH concerts are so popular, please book early Next month – SATURDAY, 12 MAY Badge Guide on the coach. Make sure MISS POTTER so as not to be disappointed. you put both dates in your diary or on your ______calendar. ______W.I. The Evergreen Club TH Our first outing for 2007 is on Whist Drive TUESDAY, 17 APRIL is the Much TUESDAY, 10TH APRIL and the Following the success of our first Whist Birch WI Open Meeting in the destination is the dreaming spires of Drive, we will be holding a further drive at Community Hall, Much Birch. The Oxford with its riverside walks and, of Little Birch Village Hall on speaker will be Mr. P Ralph and his subject is 'The History of the Royal Forest the National Fire Service) in Coventry sister, Margaret Sutton, our deepest of Dean-Canute to Elizabeth II'. The until the end of the war. He settled in sympathies. meeting begins at 7.30pm. for members - Warwickshire and married his first wife A number of friends have been in hospital 8.00pm. for visitors and promises to be and they had a son, Jez and a daughter. recently and it is good to report that most most interesting. Refreshments will be Sadly, in the space of a few years, John’s have returned home to recuperate and provided by the Committee. wife and their daughter both died. Later, hopefully missed the dreaded infections For further details of meetings and joining John met and married Gill and they moved which have been prevalent in the County the WI please contact Barbara Wilson to Wrigglebrook lane, Kings Thorn with Hospital Several friends have and still (President) on 01432 840559 or Kath son, Ben, in the early 1970’s. are travelling to Cheltenham each day and Watts on 01981 540382 Subsequently, Becky and Ruth were born we ask for your prayers for a successful ______and all three children attended Much Birch outcome after their treatment. School. Ben went on to study Art and ______Gardening Club Becky to University. Jez recalled that TH Little Birch Lanes On WEDNESDAY, 25 APRIL the both he and his father had a great love of Several complaints have been received by Club will welcome Mr. D.J Cramp who music and spent much time together Little Birch Parish Council concerning the will give a talk about ‘Wildlife In The walking in the countryside. Ben told of use of local lanes. A minority of locals and Garden’. This meeting will start at 7.30pm the happy family holidays in the caravan, 'others' are driving along these lanes and will include a Bring and Buy Plant usually in Wales, and particularly on the during wet weather as a 'short cut' or for Sale. Gower coast. John was very much a fun in 4 x 4's leaving these lanes Further information can be obtained from countryman and always wanted to live a impossible to use. As a number of these Helen Fox on 01981 541004. ‘self-sufficient’ lifestyle and dreamed of lanes provide necessary access for local Bingo eventually settling down on the businesses and homes, the Parish Council Little Birch Village Hall on THURSDAY, smallholding. When the family moved to TH request that drivers use these local lanes 26 APRIL eyes down at 8.00pm. Glendene on Wrigglenbrook Pitch, John responsibly. Failure to do so will become Proceeds in aid of hall refurbishment had a large garden in which he grew fruit quite divisive, in a small community such fund. and vegetables, which he exhibited at the as ours. Co-operation rather than ______Annual Show and he also kept poultry. confrontation is essential. John was elected to the Village Hall ______May Day Committee at an Open Village meeting in May Day celebrations will take place on History Group TH January 1977 when it was decided to re- SATURDAY, 5 MAY at Little Birch open the Hall and edited the first Little Birch and King’s Thorn History Village Hall to include May Queen Newsletter in February 1977. The Group sent a copy of their book Little competition, glamorous Granny Newsletter appeared every month with Birch on Aconbury Hill to Prince Charles competition, best dressed Jack in the John as Editor, Gill typing the copy, Ian since the Duchy of Cornwall own land Green for the boys and much more. More Porter printing the copies and the Danks adjacent to the parish. We received a very information in the next newsletter. family walking around the village to nice letter of thanks in which he sends his ______deliver to each household. This very best wishes to the community of the Aconbury Woods continued for many years until the parish of Little Birch. Copies of the book There will be a walk and talk on Resource Centre opened at Much Birch continue to be available at local TUESDAY, 8TH MAY - Come and learn and the printing was done there and a few bookshops, the Castle Inn and The what is currently happening in the woods others joined in distributing the Newsletter Pilgrim, also from Alison Clarke 01981 and what the future plans are from Geraint which helped the Danks family somewhat 540791. Richards, Duchy Agent. The walk will in a very onerous task each month. John ______start from Little Birch Village Hall at helped with the Jubilee Celebrations Much Birch 100 Club Draw 6.30pm and finish at the hall around centred around the Hall in June 1977, was The March draw took place on a tireless worker in the staging of the 8.00pm where a Ploughman’s supper will Wednesday, 14th March 2007 at Much Mini-Agricultural Show in September and be available. Supper will be £5.00 and Birch Community Hall at 7pm. will also include a glass of wine. organised a public fireworks display in The winners were: November 1977. The whole village All welcome to what promises to be a very 1. No. 31 Dr. P. Garlick, Much Birch rallied round to support these events as interesting evening. 2. No. 39 Miss J. Williams, Much Birch well as other functions in what proved to ______The next draw will take place on Friday, be a very hectic year. John continued as 13th April 2007 at 12 MD in Much Birch Local News Editor until 1995, a fine record, until the As reported last month, John Danks died Community Hall. family moved to Ross. John Jones, Chairman on 8th February at the age of 85 years. He was also very interested in the ______The Crematorium at was full and Resettlement of Young Offenders and overflowing on 23td February for a used his gardening skills to teach in local Correspondence Service of Thanksgiving for his life, prisons over many years. Michael Lacey writes to say conducted by Rev. Tim Shelley of Ross- The Danks family were active members of “My dad used to recite a poem that he on-Wye Baptist church. John’s early life the Methodist Chapel in Little Birch and learned as a child, the first part of which was spent on the outskirts of London just later at Ross-on-Wye Baptist Church and was: in Kent. During World War II he declined John’s Christian faith was unswerving to Us comes from Luch Birch which be to serve in the armed forces but joined the the end. He will be greatly missed by a Hereford way Fire Boat Service on the Thames during very wide circle of friends and we send to And to sing you a song I been asked… the blitz on London and moved later to Gill, Jez, Ben, Becky and Ruth, I’ve not tried to sing for this many a day, join the Auxiliary Fire Service (later to be grandchildren Reuben and Jay and John’s An’ I’d thought as my song days was previously received about the size of these The Parish Council has budgeted to passed. vehicles is still current. purchase a ‘SID’ which can be located at But I’ll tell, if I may, of an outing one day Financial Report several different sites within the parish. When to Lunnon us goes by the train 4 cheques written and 2 payments We are currently awaiting Farmer Hayseed, he paid an’ he gives us received Council permission to site a rented mobile the day Correspondence version of the proposed ‘SID’, near the An’ I hopes as he’ll do so again. A detailed list of all correspondence was school and at Kings Thorn, on a trial basis, There was Simon, there was Sis, given to the Parish Council and noted. prior to purchasing our own ‘SID’. There Was Lisa there was Liz Gas Pipeline There was ____ there was_____ Planning Applications - Work on the new pipeline will commence An’ Mother Miles, The View – Replacement dwelling. at the end of March, with pipe laying in An’ the farmer says to me, Notification received referring this April/May and topsoil replacement by the Now, you’re in charge you see, application to the Southern Area Planning end of June. Temporary fence removal So bring them all home safe, Committee. will take place in July. It is understood Gaffer Giles Greenlea Cottage – Conservatory that Tump Lane will not be closed. He always said that the town was really Much extension to dwelling (no objections Planning Birch but the name was changed to protect the recorded). Permissions granted by Herefordshire innocent. Any Other Business Council My brothers and I have, for some time, wanted · Community Support Officer Fiona Rosslea – Two storey extension & to find this recitation (more than a poem) and it Witcher introduced herself and issued replacement double garage. occurred to me that there might be someone contact details. Fiona offered to help Westlands – single storey extension there that knew it? Replies to the Editor, with community issues alongside PC (retrospective amendment). please. Andrew Bundy. Claypitts House, Hollybush Lane … ______· Further correspondence has been proposed new garage, shower room & Website received from Herefordshire Council porch. The Much Birch Parish website is now concerning verge erosion at Crows Applications refused by Herefordshire live and can be found at: Nest Lane and the possible erection of Council Mushroom Farm – outline residential www.muchbirchparish.org.uk verge markers and kerbs. A formal application for four dwellings. The site is still in its' infancy and I am reply to be sent rejecting these ideas. Sandridge – Barrack Hill … new continually making alterations. In · Further correspondence has been dwelling in garden to Sandridge with particular, I would welcome any received from Herefordshire Council shared access & turning. photographs, both old and new. The concerned with upgrading the U71603 Land adjacent to the Slinget – Tump website is not intended to be a rival to the road from Little Birch church to New Lane … Erection of a detached dwelling Newsletter, but a companion. Mills. A reply to be sent at a later date and ancillary garage. Contact Terry Cook’s email address at: when budgets are renewed to request [email protected] or, if you do the upgrade again. Applications supported by Much Birch not have access to the internet, 01981 · A meeting is to take place on Parish Council Pilgrim Hotel – erection of 8 no. single 540703 WEDNESDAY, 4TH APRIL to ______include representatives from Much storey hotel accommodation suites. Birch and Little Birch Parish Council Supported subject to some design LB Parish Council together with members of the Little amendments. No interests were declared. Birch Village Hall Management Much Birch Primary School … removal The minutes of the meeting held on the Committee to discuss the current of existing boiler room and tank enclosure 24th January were read and signed as a true Newsletter. and provision of new single storey record. Date of Next Meeting - WEDNESDAY extension + new fenestration to classroom Matters Arising 9TH MAY. and library. Provision of new oil store and Village Hall – Phase 1 has been Parish Clerk enclosure. completed and part payment to be Please contact the Parish Clerk with any Middle Ash – Tump Lane … new recovered from the awarded Herefordshire issues concerning Little Birch Parish. external balcony and stair to garden. Council grant. Contact details are: Liz Callwood, 540081 Donation To Community Newsletter Parish Lengthsman Scheme – Tim or [email protected] The Parish Council fully supports the Townsend has offered to take on the role ______community newsletter and has therefore of Lengthsman. Clerk to create a 6 month donated £350 towards its publication. contract for the new Lengthsman position. MBPC Parish Council Meetings Parish Field – No further progress. Parish Council Elections The Parish Council meets on the first Parish Footpaths – No correspondence Elections will be held on THURSDAY Thursday of each month (excluding has been received to document the use of 3RD MAY, for the six places available on August and January) at 8.00 pm in the parish footpaths. A newsletter article to Much Birch Parish Council. Local Community Centre. Local residents are be written requesting parishioners to residents who live in the parish and three very welcome to attend and air their views responsibly use vehicles on these in the Open Discussion session. Next miles outside the parish (as the crow flies) TH footpaths. are able to stand for election. Nomination meeting THURSDAY, 5 APRIL. Mobile Library – Further correspondence forms may be obtained from the Clerk, or Parish Clerk has been received from a local parishioner from the Electoral Office of Herefordshire If you have any queries on Parish Council concerned with the proposed new vehicle Council. For further information, please matters, please tel/fax your Clerk, Mrs stops. Herefordshire Council to be contact your Clerk on 01432 276447. Lynda Wilcox on 01432 276447 or write contacted to ensure that the information ‘Sid’ - Speed Indicator Device to 5 Croome Close, Hereford, HR1 1UY. ______Minor damage caused to one vehicle near A. No. The offence applies if a phone has to be ‘Unhealthy honey’ Longtown, but apart from this no other vehicle “held” while making or receiving a call. crime this month. Therefore you should not hold the phone adverts banned Theft between your ear and shoulder – or anywhere (Extracted from Bee Craft Newsletter to Two child’s pedal cycles were stolen from else – when driving. members) . outside an address in Lowfield Meadow, Q. “Where can I get more information” NEW rules preventing the advertising of Kingstone during February. Anyone who has A. From the Department for Transport or their unhealthy foods on TV to protect children have information about this incident please contact website – www.dft.gov.uk caused a backlash in the grocery trade. one of your local police officers. And finally on a lighter Ofcom (the Office of Communications), the Offenders are still engaged in stealing items note……………………. independent TV watchdog, set up the new made from different types of metal, for the A police control room received a frantic call guidelines to combat childhood obesity by current high scrap value. A stainless steel tank from a man who needed urgent assistant banning adverts for junk food and soft drinks. was taken from a farmyard in Didley off the following a crime at his home. Two officers But the move has turned into a ‘catch-all’ A465, and heavy metal tractor weights were were dispatched to the scene to help the caller, policy, inadvertently affecting goods including stolen fro m near a house in Preston on Wye. a Mr Wright. As they approached the address a honey, Marmite, cheese, raising, tomato Court Result local resident called to the officers: “Looking ketchup and most breakfast cereals. Herefordshire Council with the assistance of for Mr Wright?”. Quick as a flash the female Now the judging criteria have been slammed as Peterchurch Police Officers recently brought a police officer replied “Aren’t we all.” ‘absurd’ by industry magazine “The Grocer”, case to court against a 66yr old local man, who Find your local officers at the click of a which has started ‘Weigh it up!’ campaign, had been illegally residing in a caravan on button urging the Food Standards Agency to conduct Lower Maes-Coed Common. West Mercia Constabulary has been praised for an urgent review into its “Nutrient Profiling On leaving the area, following legal action, this it’s new look Local Policing Team section, on Model”, used by Ofcom to judge what man left behind a considerable amount of the force’s website. Each Local Policing team foodstuffs are fit for children. rubbish and abandoned vehicles including a has it’s own page, featuring names and “The problem is the NPM classifies all foods caravan. He failed to attend Herefordshire photographs of the team members and how to using a 100g (just under 4oz) measurement, Magistrates Court for the trial but was found contact them. regardless of the typical portion sizes” says The guilty in his absence. An arrest warrant was To find out which team covers which areas Grocer editor, Adam Leyland, “it makes no issued and this man was arrested and taken to simply visit www.westmercia.police.uk and distinction between natural sugar (raw cane court and then sentenced for dumping offences. click on the Local Policing link, then enter a sugar) and processed sugar (white) and fails to He was given a conditional discharge for two postcode into the postcode locator and the take into account any minerals, vitamins and years and ordered to pay £250 towards policing team for that area will be displayed. antioxidants”. Under those rules, 100g of compensation for clearing up the site. I hope CENTRAL POLICE CONTROL honey, with its high (natural) sugar content, is this will provide some consolation to the local 08457 444 888 deemed unhealthy. Yet non-nutritious products residents who have suffered for over two years, PC Christine Griffiths (Golden Valley) - such as diet cola, white bread and even chicken as a result of the behaviour of this man and his Mob: 07855 785 080 nuggets, would still be allowed. wife living illegally on the common. “This sends out too many wrong signals”, said Mobile Phones and driving – New Penalties PC Fiona Farrington Mr Leyland, “encouraging manufacturers to Motorists should all be aware that the use of a Mob: 07817 019 374 develop products full of artificial sweeteners hand-held phone or similar hand-held device PC Andrew Bundy and additives, while unfairly targeting many while driving is prohibited, even if stopped at Mob: 07855 385 844. wholesome and nutritious products”. traffic lights or in a queue of traffic. Local Reps are : “The Grocer’s campaign follows protests by From 27th February 2007, new penalties were East the National Farmers’ Union and an all-party introduced and you will now receive a £60 fine JOHN BULBECK - 540178 Parliamentary group. But the Food Standards and three penalty points on your licence. Central Agency says it stands by the NPM, which “has Some typical questions and answers: BOB PETERS - 540670 undergone scientific scrutiny and been openly Q. “Is hands -free phone equipment West consulted on”. allowed?” BETTY PHILPOTT - 540614 Honey has been used as a food since the time A. Provided that the phone can be operated ______of the Pharoahs and during the First World without holding it, then yes. If the phone is in a War, was used on infected wounds. I still cradle then you can push a button to answer it Cost of Printing the N/L cover any burns from oven shelves etc with as long as you don’t hold the phone to operate Four more households have opted for the honey overnight and in the morning there’s no it. electronic version. Thank you. I am now sign of the burn or a scar! As no one eats 4oz Q. “What about texting/internet able to make sure that your email address of honey in one sitting or even in making a access/video phones” cake, how can this wonderfully pure product is kept secret so your privacy is A. The use of a mobile phone or similar device guaranteed. Please acknowledge receipt with no additives be panned by the beauracratic for any of these activities while driving is body Ofcom because the NPM has got its each month and do keep your acceptances prohibited. coming. classification wrong! I would rather give my Q. “Will mobile phones have to be switched grandchildren a pot of honey to eat sparingly off in vehicles?” ______on bread and toast rather than a packet of high A. No. Passengers may want to use them, and a sugar (not natural) packet cereal. (Name and driver may use them when they are safely address supplied) Items/Copy parked. Please may I have items for the MAY ______Q. “ Who do the regulations apply to?” issue via post to A. Drivers of all motor vehicles on a road, Mrs. S.E. Mathews, Folly Cottage, Little Neighbourhood Watch including cars, motorcycles, goods vehicles, Birch, HR2 8BD; or left in the post box at Burglary Dwellings buses, coaches, taxis and drivers supervising A burglary occurred at a house in Madley on 'Bramleys' or by email attachment in Word th learners. 20 February . A local man has been arrested Q. “Are there any exemptions?” format to: and is currently on police bail for this crime. A. Yes. 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